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While parsing a malformed PDF file which contains a reference to the Root element with malformed or missing an xref table a recursive call to a function is made each time with the same parameters eventualy leading to a crash due to process stack exhaustion.

Technical information below:

During a call to VwStreamOpen function in libvs_pdf.so library, code dealing with Root element is reached (image base is at 0xB74BF000):